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    <center>Scilab Data type</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : 06/12/2005</div>
    <p>
      <b>Compound_properties</b> - description of the Compound
  entity properties</p>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    <p>The Compound entity is a third of the graphics entities hierarchy. This
    entity defines interdependencies of the various graphics entities and
    their global visibility property.</p>
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        <b>parent: </b>This property contains the handle of the parent. The parent of the
        text entity should be of the type <tt>
          <b>"Axes"</b>
        </tt> or
        <tt>
          <b>"Compound"</b>
        </tt>.</dd>
      <dd>
        <b>children: </b>A vector containing the handles of all graphics objects children
        of the Compound These graphics objects can be of type
        <tt>
          <b>"Compound"</b>
        </tt>, <tt>
          <b>"Rectangle"</b>
        </tt>,
        <tt>
          <b>"Polyline"</b>
        </tt>, <tt>
          <b>"Patch"</b>
        </tt>, <tt>
          <b>"Segs"</b>
        </tt>,
        <tt>
          <b>"Arc"</b>
        </tt>, <tt>
          <b>"Grayplot"</b>
        </tt>,..</dd>
      <dd>
        <b>visible: </b>This field contains the <tt>
          <b>visible</b>
        </tt> property value for
        the entity . It should be <tt>
          <b>"on" </b>
        </tt> or <tt>
          <b>"off"</b>
        </tt>. By
        default, value is <tt>
          <b>"on" </b>
        </tt> where graphics entities children
        of the Compound are drawn according to their visibility property. If
        <tt>
          <b>"off"</b>
        </tt> all children of Compound are not displayed on the
        screen.</dd>
      <dd>
        <b>user_data: </b>This field can be use to store any scilab variable in the figure
        data structure, and to retreive it.</dd>
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      <font color="blue">See Also</font>
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    <p>
      <a href="glue.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>glue</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="unglue.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>unglue</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="graphics_entities.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>graphics_entities</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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      <font color="blue">Author</font>
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    <p>Djalel ABDEMOUCHE</p>
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